#bo and clothing

[boburnhamhistorian]

Hi, everyone! Since all of my tweets as UBBH have now vanished, I just wanted to create a list of some of my more popular Twitter threads that I’ve copied onto my site:

My 13-part series about Bo and his comedic influences (based on a Facebook Note he wrote to his fans in 2010, which I use as a springboard to explore how that comic has impacted Bo and his works)

My 4-part series of interviews about Rothaniel audience members (including myself!) who were fortunate enough to attend a taping of the Emmy-winning comedy special

My ongoing series of interviews with Content Creators: Sean Himmelberg, Isabel Descutner, and Davy Kynoch

My ongoing series of posts analyzing Jerrod Carmichael and the symbolic importance of his clothing choices

Easter eggs in Inside and the Inside Outtakes you might have missed when first viewing the specials, including the MANY appearances of my beloved disco ball 🪩 and Socko

My primers on Bo’s works and Jerrod’s works, including how to watch them (planning on a Lorene Scafaria one and a Kate Berlant one soon!)

My series on Bo and food/drink preferences: peanut butter, Red Bull, breakfast cereal

My once-a-day recommendations for Inside video essays and Inside content online

And, of course, the thread that kicked off everything for me: the popular Bo repurposing his old clothes in Inside (with a bonus look at his favorite gray hoodie!)

I hope you enjoy reading my threads from the past year, and stay tuned for lots more fun! ✌️

[daarchiverrrrr]

this scene in house of wax reads like that one twitter convo

[gil-estel]

ooo, bo katan in a sleeveless turtleneck and wide-leg pants?

again, this is an outfit i would totally wear 🤩

[smilesrobotlover]

Just a normal picture of Rusl

[devondespresso]

my take on stobin sharing a wardrobe is that steve likes when clothes fit properly and robin does not

[tetraandtheapples]

Erm!! I did more art!!!!!! My art style is so inconsistent I want to draw more realistically but I'm goofy goober at my core....... Gehahahaha

Also???? Pony Error under cut??????? (and a few error sketches!) Hidden slightly because I'm still a bit unsure about the design RAHH

I think it'd be cool if he had strings all over his body like he was some mangled stupid hasbro official pony plushie...... but the strings were like insanely last minute LMAO so I want to redo it again with that in mind.... when the pony takes me over again.

Transcript for Pony Info (because my handwriting is a bit messy)

PONY INFO!

Strings run along entire body

Used to have a cutie mark, but the file is "lost"

Horn sparks & glitches dangerously when using magic

-> Not harmful to him, but strong emotions can cause it to flare up (basically when the horn starts fuzzing a lot you know he's close to a full-on reboot)

Whatever the hell this thing is core -> (pic of very stupid looking Hasbro official Princess Twilight Sparkle plushie with brushable hair!!!! Batteries not included)

↓ WARNING!!! STUPID IDIOT BELOW!!!!!!! 🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☣️☣️☣️☣️☣️☣️☣️🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢 ↓

[aroaceleovaldez]

i love drawing Jason with a silly lil cowlick

[pondslime]

let him go dump the casket in the ground and he’ll be right there 💅

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

so i’ve been drawing ulster cycle/tain bo cuailnge characters for a while now and a problem that i have repeatedly run into is that i have no idea how these people dress. their clothes always end up looking wrong and i don’t know where to look to find good info about it or references to work from, and it can be difficult to differentiate the more faithful depictions from the stereotypical “ancient celtic warrior” stuff, especially since i’m not well versed in most of the texts they’re based on. do you have any advice/resources/tips/anything to help? thanks :)

i am not particularly an expert on historic clothing and i have to admit it's not an area i have a great deal of knowledge about in the context of the ulster cycle specifically but here are some thoughts!

a good starting point would be the descriptions of clothes within the texts themselves. so you can just go to the online edition of o'rahilly's translations (recension 1 / book of leinster) and search a word like "cloak" or "tunic" and get all the descriptions of cloaks and tunics that show up in the story itself. e.g:

this is a good starting point bc what you'll be representing is at least clothing as it's presented in these stories even if it doesn't necessarily 100% represent historical fact, because it's often stylised, idealised, uses colours for symbolic value rather than practicalities of dyeing etc

(here's a link to the index of translated texts on this part of the CELT site if you wanna have a browse for others)

but that can be tricky without visual references which is where you start needing other sources

and that's where it's worth noting that the ulster cycle texts are set a long time before they're written, but the material culture in the stories is generally neither a historically accurate representation of the distant past, or a totally contemporary and up-to-date depiction of what people were wearing at the time (bc there's a degree of archaising and trying to make stuff sound old and also drawing on earlier sources). so you end up with multiple options for what period you might be trying to represent -- ~1st cent BCE when they're set? ~8th cent when our earliest surviving stories show up? ~11th-12th cent when TBC was written in its surviving form?

the good news is that you can probably learn a lot from reenactors and experimental archaeologists and living history types -- from vikings in ireland through to normans in ireland is pretty well covered in that regard, but there's some earlier bronze-iron age stuff as well, and that should give you some visual references to draw on. i'm sure some more reenactment and living history minded followers of mine will have specific recs for resources there, but you could try looking at the UCD experimental arch folks, craggaunowen living history centre in the west of ireland (they have a video on weaving and clothing), the dublinia museum for viking-age stuff, etc

and the big advantage of the texts not being "historically accurate" themselves is that you don't have to stick too closely to a specific century or whatever if you don't want to! not that the basic design of a tunic would change a huge amount but if you wanna mix and match the vibes somewhat, nobody could really call you out on it

the HARDEST part is probably representing armour, which shows up fairly rarely, but you've got things like cu chulainn's 27 'waxed shirts' and i've seen various theories about what that's supposed to entail but i don't think there's a definite answer. having said that, most of the time he's not wearing that so you can just... ignore it, if you want to and don't want to conform to any specific theory about it lol

finally you can't go wrong with tunics. just layers of tunics. long tunics under short tunics. tunics with cloaks. fancy tunics. simple tunics. people loved a tunic

[killyridols]

pink interval handkerchief by rachael bos - from her handkerchiefs collection, watercolor & graphite on paper, 10 x 10 inches, unknown date

[myopicfascination]

Love how we all collectively watched that scene between Bo Katan and the Armourer and thought,

[whippedcloudsofcream]

“Why are you helping now? There was a time when we weren’t enemies. Perhaps that time has come again.”

[rainbowpufflez]

Wip (finished now posted here!)

Been listening to this song and thinking about them too much

[c28hunter]

I made it a while ago, haven't posted it , so yeah

[ge]

tang soso: so..youre the plum blossom sword saint..

chung myung: yeah

tang soso: ..and you were also..my great great grandfathers lover..?

chung myung: yeahh its a lot to take in dont think about it too much

tang soso: no well i mean. im just wondering.

chung myung: what

tang soso: i mean.. cutsleeves..

chung myung: ..i guess

tang soso:……did you ever… you know

chung myung: WHAT

tang soso: YOU KNOW.. cut your.. sleeve…

chung myung: what? no. tang bo slept like a rock, if he ever fell asleep on my clothes i just yanked it out from under him

tang soso: oh. well did he ever cut his?

chung myung, fondly: once but i made sure he never pulled that shit again

[boing-o]

ID-ing Gerard's Clothes p2

SWAY Headbands, "She will be a Classic - Red and Black" 52 USD